> On 24-04-07 15:20, in article
> tim.streater-848B41.14205124042***@news.individual.net, "Tim Streater"
> <tim.strea***@dante.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > I have some video that I have finished editing in iMovie HD, and I want
> > to place an exported version onto one of our local servers so people
> > here can run it. I'm trying to export it as a quicktime movie, and as
> > there is some detail in it I want to use good quality settings (720x576
> > or so, 24fps). So I do the export and get a file I can play on this Mac
> > Pro with no problems. But on my XP laptop sitting right next to it, when
> > I try to run it in RealPlayer, up comes a complaint from  quicktime:
> >
> > QuickTime is missing some software required to perform this operation.
> > Unfortunately it is not available on the QuickTime server.
> >
> > Does anyone know what this is about, or what are appropriate settings to
> > use in iMovie?
>
> 24fps in PAL (720x576) resolution? AFAIK that shouldn't work at all...
> Please either try to change resolution to NTSC or framerate to 25fps.

> In article <C253FE0B.1E7FC%krzem***@onet.pl>,
>  Tadeusz Krzeminski <krzem***@onet.pl> wrote:
>
> > On 24-04-07 15:20, in article
> > tim.streater-848B41.14205124042***@news.individual.net, "Tim Streater"
> > <tim.strea***@dante.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > I have some video that I have finished editing in iMovie HD, and I want
> > > to place an exported version onto one of our local servers so people
> > > here can run it. I'm trying to export it as a quicktime movie, and as
> > > there is some detail in it I want to use good quality settings (720x576
> > > or so, 24fps). So I do the export and get a file I can play on this Mac
> > > Pro with no problems. But on my XP laptop sitting right next to it, when
> > > I try to run it in RealPlayer, up comes a complaint from  quicktime:
> > >
> > > QuickTime is missing some software required to perform this operation.
> > > Unfortunately it is not available on the QuickTime server.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what this is about, or what are appropriate settings to
> > > use in iMovie?
> >
> > 24fps in PAL (720x576) resolution? AFAIK that shouldn't work at all...
> > Please either try to change resolution to NTSC or framerate to 25fps.
>
> Sorry its a keyframe every 24 frames, PAL, 720x576. In the end I am able
> to play it on a PC using mplayer. But QT, Realplayer, and win media
> player all refuse or give a warning and then a white screen.

> On 24-04-07 19:09, in article
> tim.streater-990E53.18091724042***@news.individual.net, "Tim Streater"
> <tim.strea***@dante.org.uk> wrote:
>
> [cut]
> I was trying to recreate your situation on my PC and everything works fine.
> So coding / exporting is probably not an issue in that case.
>
> Instead I found this:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30400
>
> White or gray video when you play a movie with QuickTime or missing software
> message
>
> Excerpt:
>
> 'This can also happen if you encode video with QuickTime 7 (included with
> Mac OS X 10.4) using the H.264 codec and try to play that back on a computer
> with QuickTime 6.5.2 or earlier. The H.264 codec is only available with
> QuickTime 7 or later.'
>
> Are you sure you have QuickTime 7 installed on your PC machine? If not,
> either try to update QuickTime to version 7 or use another codec.